esotericism

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esotericism

noun esotericisms

  1. countable, uncountable The tendency to promote or desire the esoteric. Derridean "messianicity without messianism" that marks so much of post-modernist educational theorizing today, and that makes use of esotericism, sigetics, acroamatics, proleptics, and illocutionary and perlocutionary acts in the disguise of a new pedagogy of the unknowable, wasn't the answer ten ye

    Opposite: exotericism

  2. countable, uncountable Doctrines or practices of esoteric knowledge. Near-synonym: woo woo

    Similar: woo woo

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noun tendency

DeutschEsoterik

noun doctrines or practices

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@misc{esotericism_2026,
  title = {esotericism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/esotericism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}